[plug] kernel 2.6.3 production-ready?
Craig Ringer
craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Thu Mar 4 10:41:13 WST 2004
On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 05:39, Tony Breeds wrote:
> One of the slightly annoying problems with the upgrade to 2.6 is the
> need for a new/different set of mudule tools. To the best of my
> knowledge they're not packaged in Debian stable (the only choice for a
> UWA server ;P) and they (module-init-tools) tend to create package
> managemtn problems for modutils. This is by no means a showstopper
> problem but it another reason you may not want to go down the 2.6 path
> (yet).
There are SRPMs on kernel.org for RPM-based distros - might you be able
to do something ugly with alien? The SRPMs work a treat - 100% backward
compatible, easy to install, easy to build.
Craig Ringer
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